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• Gidon's Testing of Hashem/2
  ...ize of the army, Hashem tells Gidon, "וְאֶצְרְפֶנּוּ לְךָ שָׁם".  The root צרף has the connotation of purifying, suggesting that in differentiating
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• Purpose of Shemittah/2
  ...Shemittah year are referred to as a&#160; "Shabbat".<fn>In Vayikra 25, the root "שבת" appears seven times in the context of the Shemittah year.</fn></li
  25 KB (3,977 words) - 12:18, 20 May 2019
• Miracles and Mitzvot at Marah/2/en
  .... Eliezer. Ralbag, in contrast, brings support from other instances of the root "נסה".</fn> <multilink><a href="RalbagShemot15P25" data-aht="source">Ral
  57 KB (8,236 words) - 08:01, 30 July 2019
• Literary Devices – Bereshit 17/5
  ...aham ibn Ezra explained in the name of the Nagid that the name is from the root <i>shodeid</i>, meaning "victor and prevailer over the hosts of heaven." Th
  21 KB (1,833 words) - 04:38, 2 July 2023
• Did Shemuel Come Back to Life/2
  ...Shaul "knew" it was Shemuel even though it was not really him because the root "ידע" can also mean to believe.<fn>In truth, all of these positions woul
  30 KB (4,679 words) - 23:20, 24 September 2019
• Dictionary:זוד/5
  ...mselves wicked. Our Rabbis, however, explained it in the same sense as the root which we find in <span class="source-link">(<a class="source" data-book="En
  25 KB (1,839 words) - 20:43, 13 January 2020
• Rachel/0
  ...ta-aht="parshan">About R. Avraham ibn Ezra</a></multilink> understands the root "פתל" to mean to wrestle or struggle, seeing Rachel as explicitly mentio
  30 KB (4,574 words) - 11:32, 28 January 2023
• Petition of the Two and a Half Tribes/2
  ...alth.&#160; R"E Samet (ibid) also points out that the text's choice of the root קנה further focuses the reader on the quality of possession. Moshe, in c
  51 KB (7,205 words) - 11:52, 28 January 2023
• Dictionary:זד – זדון/5
  ...mselves wicked. Our Rabbis, however, explained it in the same sense as the root which we find in <span class="source-link">(<a class="source" data-book="En
  25 KB (1,868 words) - 20:43, 13 January 2020
• The Spies – Where Did They Tour/2
  ...is claim from the choice of verb, "לָתוּר", which he claims relates to the root "תאר" which mean to surround.</fn> Chizkuni and R. Hirsch posit that the
  28 KB (4,249 words) - 00:33, 22 January 2015
• Channah's Prayer/2
  ...emidbar 21:7 and Devarim 9:26. However, see also Shemuel II 7:27 where the root appears in the context of David thanking Hashem for promising him a dynasty
  26 KB (3,823 words) - 23:57, 5 September 2017
• Index:Resource Articles/0
  ...the different experience of the Akeidah for Avraham and for Sarah, and the root of the difference.</li> ...s view that many mitzvot are intended to uproot idolatry by addressing the root philosophy of idolatry and how it is a timeless theological threat.</li>
  54 KB (7,619 words) - 22:57, 11 April 2024
• Yosef/0
  ...word "נַעַר" elsewhere in Tanakh means servant, they assume that here the root is being used as a verb to mean serve.</fn>&#160; Either way, this soured t
  40 KB (5,805 words) - 12:59, 28 January 2023
• The Roundabout Route and The Road Not Traveled/2
  ...e">Miracles and Mitzvot at Marah</a>.]&#160; Cf. Philo who understands the root as to "test" and thus writes:&#160; "He was also desirous, by leading them
  64 KB (9,872 words) - 12:13, 28 January 2023
• Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice/2/en
  ...ke in the Midianite system.</fn> and therefore he attempted to address the root of the problem by proposing that the nation receive a Divine civil law code
  29 KB (4,560 words) - 14:23, 31 January 2024
• Blessings and Curses – Over Which Commandments/2
  ...amities, is letting the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical years.&#160; The root "שבת" also appears numerous times in both chapters,<fn>See Vayikra 25:1-
  36 KB (5,284 words) - 12:29, 28 January 2023
• David and Batsheva/2
  ...Abarbanel claims that the former is more problematic as it strikes at the root of adherence to all commandments.</point>
  29 KB (4,416 words) - 06:48, 27 May 2018
• Hardened Hearts/2/en
  ...then, this approach encounters a measure of difficulty in interpreting the root כבד in "כִּי אֲנִי הִכְבַּדְתִּי אֶת לִבּו
  65 KB (10,068 words) - 11:01, 28 January 2023
• Reuven and Bilhah/2
  ...hese sources understand the phrase "יְצוּעִי עָלָה".&#160; Pointing to the root "עלה" in <a href="Tehillim102-25" data-aht="source">Tehillim 102:25</a>,
  31 KB (4,596 words) - 12:13, 28 January 2023
• Purpose of the Pesach/2
  ...d Yechezkel 9:6-8 which similarly refer to death or destruction (using the root of שחת) wrought by an angel. The parallel from Yechezkel is particularly ...shiyah in the Mekhilta, R"Y Bekhor Shor suggests that it is related to the root פסע, with the pharyngeals ח and ע being exchanged.</fn> – Jubilees,
  68 KB (10,448 words) - 12:30, 28 January 2023

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